The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-04-30

trust their reason instead of sssG,t ssT III
natcr-to credit me with u
them letters. know neither
of you two could. After I've loved
a girl and give her up to my friend,
and bear neither of them any grudgc
because they obeycd natter he stopped
and seemed to swallow the Adams
apple in his lean throat-"why, Icouldn't
go live or revenge instead of this kind
of game sorrow that's such q sweet, cruel
pain"
You couldn't, Mark, and be in your
right mind" added Dave Hightman, "and
l know your mind is right because it's
your heart that's hurt and not your con-
ceit."
Goodbye to you BOTH" said Mark
Hanson, passing his wrist across his eyes.
"The longer you stay yer the worse I
feel. So I'll kccpthese letters and my old
dog, and bring both back to you, Carrie,
in a few days"
Goodbye, Mark; when you have found
the man, take your horscwhip and fog
him. Butt must 60 and see It done"
"Tll bring the whip if l find tho rogue,
Carrie, and you shall tell me how long to
ply it,
Dave High,man rode quietly home with
Carrie, exercising no authority, but say.
ing the homely speech that 1t wasn't well
to make an appointment with trouble
when 1t would be sure TO call at ones
home.
They found poor grandfather working
NJ 1ic ,,Nnr,pSr r oy-nr t1,n ,1,nlc n,I Snt ptnt,n
of the past and the era Of good feeling
under Mr.. Monroe, which lie never could
get past.
"Granny," cried Carrie Dcvoc in high
spirits, 1--WE are going to find the anony-
nous letter writer! Mark Hanson has
got the letters"
"Wcll," said grandfather, II hope you
will; but I never heard of a hunter
becoming distinguished rs q special mail
agent"
After they had gone Mark Hanson sat
on the porch Of his old, neglected house,
with Negrofoot in his lap, and had n quiet,
boyish cry over the loss Of the large, ma.
!turc, brown.eycd woman who had so dis
turbed his life, over his vision of APP
proaching agc without any comforter but
dogs, chickens and rabbit traps, and also
over his neglected opportunities of school
and the moncy-making trades.
Ho Ind been left n little independence,
possessed n part of 1t still, never knew nv.
aricc, consulted such tastes as he had, and
therefore was no cynic If he Ind failed 10
acquire either glory or his girl.
A movement of the Talbot hounds
nose from side to side attracted the OBJ
servant hunters eye, and he saw that the
package OF anonymous letters had been
held against the animals muzzlc.
"ThAt paper has a mean ordor," Mark
Hanson observed. tits not been well
washed in chloride of lime at the mill, or
the rosin and alum they use there hain'i
got the chloride of lime out, of it"
Tic passed the paper over the blood,
hounds nose agnin and again.
Carries bloodhound waS not Of iht
misnamcd Spanish masti1rs which hunted
Cuban slaves, but n real bloodhound
sblack-and.tan in color, slow but steady
in pursuit, developed like q tobacco
chcwer, bow.lcgged as a country tailor,
fierce in nothing, merely marvclously
scented and only more solemn than Il
foxllound. In all respects of ciyilityN Ne
grofoot was n Quaker, except in the well
known Quakcrly scent for either the
spirit or the substance on which his per.
ceptions have been set. He had loved
Mark Hanson; he loved CARRIE Devoe,
too, but Mark had trained him, and edu.
cation as we'll as inclination now kept
him will, tho discarded lover.
"Negerfoot Y exclaimed Mark, after he
had appeared 10 leave the contents Of the
anonymous letters to the hounds intciii-
gcncc, you md me Is too old to learn
anything new. l can set n good snare
and you can follow q, strong trail. That's
ALL
The hound stood VI, and baycd low.